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A student notices that the image produced from a large concave mirror of a distant skyscraper (h = 106 m) is inverted and the magnitude of the height is |hi| = 1.16 m tall. The image is located d = 152 cm in front of the mirror. Numerically, what is the focal length of the mirror, f, in cm?
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